Monday, June 17, 2013

Brundall TG3208 passes 500

Having mopped up the easy stuff, this week has been a struggle but yesterday sunshine, a day off work and a patch of hogweed in flower at the edge of the village all combined to provide a decent haul of inverts.

June 16th

489. Housemartin - amazingly scarce here these days.
490. Lesser whitethroat - a brief snatch of song.
491. Meadow vetchling - not quite in flower.
492. Lesser stitchwort.
493. Greater birdsfoot trefoil.
494. Panorpa germanica - a male and 2nd scoprion fly species on the list
495. Glyphipterix schoenicolella (micromoth) - on hogweed (unless I have got this wrong - see photo)

Glyphipterix schoenicolella - unless anyone knows better.
496. Plutella xylostella (micromoth) - on hogweed.
497. Pammeme aurana (micromoth) - on hogweed.
498. heart and club - the only moth in the trap!
499. Tenthredo maculata (sawfly)
500. Tenthredo mesomelas (sawfly)
501. Macrophya montana (sawfly)
502. Aglaostigma fulvipes (sawfly)
503. Four-coloured cuckoo bee Bombus sylvestris - a male on hogweed.
504. Andrena semilaevis (mining bee) - collecting pollen from rough chervil.
505. Lasioglossum pauxillum (mining bee) - swept from wild radish.
506. Lasioglossum smeathmanellum (mining bee) - swept from wild radish.
507. Crossocerus distinguendus (digger wasp) - swept from hazel leaves.
508. Crossocerus elongatus (digger wasp) - with previous species.
509. Ectemnius continuus (digger wasp) - on hogweed.
510. Pseudomalus auratus (jewel wasp) - on bramble leaves.
511. Stenodema calcarata (mirid bug) - helpful diagnostic teeth on hind femur.
512. Common blue damselfly - in the park.
513. Scarce chaser - several tenerals near the stream.
514. Oedemera nobilis - loads of these shiny beetles on hogweed.
515. Araniella curcurbitana (spider)- male confirmed by genitalia.
516. Tetragnatha montana (spider)- finally a mature individual.
517. Anasimyia transfuga (hoverfly) - on rough chervil.
518. Baccha elongata (hoverfly) - swept from grass.
519. Eristalis arbustorum (hoverfly) - on hogweed.
520. Chrysogaster solstitialis (hoverfly) - on rough chervil.
521. Leucozona lucorum (hoverfly) - on hogweed.
522. Melangyna compositarum (hoverfly) - lots on hogweed.
523. Scaeva pyrastri (hoverfly) - on wild radish.
524. Volucella bombylans (hoverfly) - on hogweed.
525. Common orange legionnaire Beris vallata.
526. Empis stercorea (fly) - my 4th Empis for the square.




 


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  1. AnonymousJune 17, 2013 at 10:39 PM

    Hi Tim (under your pen name Ginnie!) Good work. Looks like Glyphipterix schoenicolella is pretty rare though - http://www.norfolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?bf=3920 . Don't know if Black Bog-rush occurs on Strumpshaw Fen? Anyway, if you're going to prove it's not simpliciella (which is dirt common) you'll probably want to get a specimen checked? MBGBI2 says you need to look at the dorsal cilia of the hindwing (basal half white for schoen, all pale fuscous for simpliciella)

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  2. AnonymousJune 17, 2013 at 10:39 PM

    P.S. So many wasps! How come I can hardly find any?

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